The Archive · 1939

Soviet Claims Biggest Submarine Fleet

Campaign Begun to Make Russia Navy Conscious

Moscow, July 22.

A claim that Soviet Russia has the biggest submarine fleet in the world is made in an article in the "Pravda," in connection with the Soviet Union's fist Navy Day on July 24, by the Commissar of Shipbuilding.

Soviet submarines alone, he de-clates, are sufficient to ensure the seciitity of the entire Soviet coast, The áicle is part of a campaign to make the country navy conscious, and follows extensive naval manoeuvres, particularly in the Baltic, which will culminate in special programmes on July 24—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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